27:1 Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth.
27:2 Let another praise you, and not your own mouth someone else, and not your own lips.
27:3 Stone is heavy and sand a burden, but provocation by a fool is heavier than both.
27:4 Anger is cruel and fury overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?
27:5 Better is open rebuke than hidden love.
27:6 Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses.
27:7 He who is full loathes honey, but to the hungry even what is bitter tastes sweet.
27:8 Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who strays from his home.
27:9 Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart, and the pleasantness of one’s friend springs from his earnest counsel.
27:10 Do not forsake your friend and the friend of your father, and do not go to your brother’s house when disaster strikes you better a neighbour nearby than a brother far away.
27:11 Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart then I can answer anyone who treats me with contempt.
27:12 The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
27:13 Take the garment of one who puts up security for a stranger hold it in pledge if he does it for a wayward woman.
27:14 If a man loudly blesses his neighbour early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse.
27:15 A quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping on a rainy day
27:16 restraining her is like restraining the wind or grasping oil with the hand.
27:17 As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.
27:18 He who tends a fig-tree will eat its fruit, and he who looks after his master will be honoured.
27:19 As water reflects a face, so a man’s heart reflects the man.
27:20 Death and Destruction [Hebrew: Sheol and Abaddon] are never satisfied, and neither are the eyes of man.
27:21 The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold, but man is tested by the praise he receives.
27:22 Though you grind a fool in a mortar, grinding him like grain with a pestle, you will not remove his folly from him.
27:23 Be sure you know the condition of your flocks, give careful attention to your herds
27:24 for riches do not endure for ever, and a crown is not secure for all generations.
27:25 When the hay is removed and new growth appears and the grass from the hills is gathered in,
27:26 the lambs will provide you with clothing, and the goats with the price of a field.
27:27 You will have plenty of goats’ milk to feed you and your family and to nourish your servant girls.
